| Frederick Grimké - 1856 - 680 páginas
...this time, draws the following vivid picture of the general state of manners in that country: "Theie are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families provided for by the church boxes, with others, who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases),... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1856 - 764 páginas
...appears from the following extract : — " There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great nnmbcr of families very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others who, with living npon bad food, fall into various diseases) 200,000 people begging from door to door. Thene... | |
| Walter Scott - 1857 - 336 páginas
...picture of these banditti about a century ago, which my readers will peruse with astonishment:— " There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...for by the church boxes, with others, who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...Secoivd Discourse on the Affairs of Scotland, published in 1698, occurs the following sketeh : — There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...for by the church boxes, with others who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred tJtausand people begging from door to door. These... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 876 páginas
...picture of these banditti about a century ago, which my readers will peruse with astonishment : — " There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by tiie chnrch boxes, with others, who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred... | |
| William Edward Baxter - 1860 - 264 páginas
...clothes." Sir Walter Scott, in " Guy Mannering," quotes the following passage from Pletcher of Saltoun : " There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...for by the church boxes, with others who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door ;" .... | |
| 1860 - 664 páginas
...country in the most striking point of view. " There are, at this day in Scotland, besides a great many families very meanly provided for by the church boxes,...with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases, two hundred thousand people begging 1'iom door to door. These are not only no way... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1860 - 692 páginas
...view. " There are, at this day in Scotland, besides a great many families very meanly provided fur by the church boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, lall into various diseases, two hundred thousand people begging ['ют door to door. These are not... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 páginas
...of Scotland, written in 1698 (p. 144 of this volume), the following extraordinary statement : — " There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...for by the church boxes, with others, who by living oo bad food fall into various diseases) 200,000 people begging from door to door. These are not only... | |
| James Lorimer - 1862 - 538 páginas
...it in the present work. 1881. " There are at this day (1698) in Scotland (besides a great number of families very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others who, with living upon bad food, fall into various diseases), 200,000' people begging from door to door.... | |
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